The latest Zwift update has been announced and will be released in phases over the next few days. This is a minor update, but it includes some fun new HoloReplay functionality. Let’s dig into the details…
Leaderboard HoloReplays
Zwift’s HoloReplay feature launched as a FutureWorks project back in October 2022. Since then they’ve been tweaked and upgraded steadily, and many Zwifters now use them to play training games as they try to match or beat their previous segment times.
Today, Zwift launches Leaderboard HoloReplays – a feature that lets you compete against someone else’s HoloReplay!
This is how it works in basic terms: if you enable “Leaderboard HoloReplay” in your settings, then whenever you start a segment with a leaderboard, the game will pick an entry from the leaderboard that feels “just challenging enough for you to chase down.” You will see this HoloReplay and can chase it for the duration of the segment.
To be a bit more precise: the game selects a leaderboard entry that is slightly faster than your predicted finish time for the segment. Zwift predicts your time based on your 60-day power curve and current speed into the segment.
Don’t want other riders to see your segment efforts in a Leaderboard HoloReplay? Set “HoloReplay Privacy” to “Private” in your settings. (By default, everyone is set to public.)
Learn all about Leaderboard HoloReplays in this forum topic >
Note: currently you must have at least one type of HoloReplay enabled via the “Segment HoloReplay” setting in order to see Leaderboard HoloReplays. Zwift tells us this is a bug that will be fixed soon.
Coffee Stop Tweak
The Coffee Stop feature was introduced on May 10th, and today’s update modifies it a bit for events. Where the Coffee Stop’s 30-minute timer previously began when you joined the event start pens, it now begins when the event starts… as it should!
PC & Mac Launcher Update
Zwift updated their launcher on PC and Mac to v1.1.8 a few weeks back. While it doesn’t provide any new features you’ll notice, it includes “Incremental updates and performance improvements for macOS” and “Minor bug fixes for the PC launcher”.
For whatever reason, the launcher doesn’t get updated forcibly with today’s Zwift update. While it’s unclear what parts of the game the launcher handles vs the actual game code, our advice is to always have the latest Zwift launcher version. If you don’t have the latest version (on PC, right-click the Zwift icon in your system tray to find your current version), you can download the latest launcher from Zwift to force the upgrade.
Zwift Companion Deprecation on iOS 12
While not strictly a part of today’s game update, it’s worth noting that Zwift is deprecating iOS 12 for Zwift Companion starting today (May 31). That means if you’ve been running Companion on an older iPhone or iPad running iOS 12, it will no longer work as of today.
More Fixes and Tweaks
Here is the list of fixes/tweaks Zwift included in their release notes:
- Fixed issue that impacted navigation within certain text fields with mouse or keyboard (including garage scrolling and workout editing).
- Fixed an issue where other riders occasionally weren’t shown in the “Zwifted With” list after an activity.
- Fixed an issue where black boxes occasionally appeared in dusty conditions.
- Apple TV: Fixed an issue with Apple TV remotes not being able to use ride leader fence controls.
- Apple TV: Fixed an issue with Apple TV remotes not selecting the game menu button when the Back button was pressed.
- Apple TV: Fixed an issue with Apple TV remotes not being able to navigate up and select power-ups.
- Android: Fixed a crash on the Android pairing screen.
- Android: Fixed an issue where RunPods and smart treadmills failed to connect.
- Android: Fixed a potential crash when using an external keyboard.
- PC & Mac: Fixed not being able to paste text within in-game chat.
See notes on this update release in the Zwift forum >
Known Bugs/Undocumented Changes In This Release
- Popup detail text not showing on ride summary power curve chart (carried over from v1.39)
- Riders nearby list not scrolling reliably (your listing is often at the top of the list, and sometimes not even on the list) (carried over from v1.39)
- KICKR Bikes lose steering ability after taking a Coffee Break (carried over from v1.39)
- FTP no longer editable via text box on workout picker/detail screen (slider still works)
- You must have at least one type of HoloReplay enabled via the “Segment HoloReplay” setting in order to see Leaderboard HoloReplays. Zwift tells us this is a bug that will be fixed soon.
- Clicking to join a RoboPacer occasionally places you incorrectly (carried over from v1.39)
Questions or Comments?
If you spotted any other changes or bugs in the update, please comment below!
Any news on when the video clip capture feature is coming to PC versions?
I know it’s coming soon. No precise date given though.
Also any update about the clip feature for Android ?
Android work is planned for after Windows
I thought it was just me on my older ipad
Anyone unable to edit your FTP on workouts? I can only use the slider now, but used to be able edit manually and type in exact number. This was happening prior to this update, but fairly recently I noticed it.
That’s weird – yeah, I’m unable to change it from the workout picker screen. Can still change it from my main profile settings, though.
Neither of my workouts today saved to my profile either. Not sure if part of the update or what. Tried to close out the May Workout Mission….
move cursor vertically
Using the arrow keys?
When are they going to fix it so you can get a red tron bike
Thanks for the info as always Eric! By any chance have you heard of anyone not being able to steer and use available power ups after taking a coffee break?
I’m on a KickrBike and it happens to me every time I use a coffee break. I’m not sure if this is a Wahoo or Zwift issue? Any input from anyone would help 🙂
Haven’t heard this, but it sounds like something you should report to Zwift. It’s always best to document it with a video if possible!
Will do, thanks Eric 🙂
It’s a known issue: https://forums.zwift.com/t/no-steering-after-coffee-break-kickr-bike-1-39/606882
Thank you for the info!! Much appreciated and glad I’m not the only one with this issue!
And again not a single fluffing bike. Oh well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Grandpa Min do you remember that we need new bikes to ride on Zwift? Don’t you? Really? I doubt that…
I don’t. I have more bikes than I will ever use on Zwift.
Yes, there should be a bike bin where you can clear out / dump all unwanted bike, wheels, etc.
Anyone new in particular that you will ever use on Zwift BTW?
I have no need for new bikes.
In fact, I’d like to get rid of some I have. Never use them and they just make selecting the ones I want take longer.
Lovely ZHQ, it would be so fantastic to get the chance to rank/sort our frames, wheels and kits by our own wishes !!!
Was it last summer when they introduced a new bike that changed the best bike every month?
So, new bikes only beneficial for me if they are better, meaning faster than an old bike. I get zero satisfaction from riding a clunker or the virtual version of the real bike that I personally own. What would be cool is to put personal comments on bikes that I own so that I can remember why I bought or would use a frame and wheel set. Like which one to use if I am riding a hilly course or flat course etc.
That what is called evolution and it works flawlessly in the road racing bicycle industry. That’s one of the reasons you or anyone else including me are waiting for road bike market news. Because we want news in the world of cycling and not being anchored to the past. IMHO. This works for any walk of life.
if there are new IRL bikes launched in connection with TdF 2023, then we should not be too surprised if some of those appear on Zwift shortly afterwards
Thanks for keeping us updated, as always.
Since the previous update I often get flashing black boxes in the middle of the screen during busy group rides – as if they are where an avatar would be and so are shifting around constantly in the same way as a rider would. I had this yesterday on a warm-up spin with Coco on Makuri 40 (where it was so bad that it made the screen unviewable for long periods), and then also a few times during the group ride that I joined immediately afterwards (on Innsbruckring). These were not dusty conditions and so does not seem to be the same bug as is now meant to fixed according to the above. Any ideas?
Also, I now do not get the title music, just the background game sounds. I’ve checked my settings and toggled the sound settings on and off but still not title music, and I’m missing it more than I thought I would. Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I had the flashing black boxes this afternoon too. Also, LeaderBoard HoloReplays seem to be active now.
There’s an entry in the “more fixes and tweaks” about that.
“our advice is to always have the latest Zwift launcher version”
Is that still good advice given that Zwift is now regularly doing staged roll-outs of the main game app? Perhaps they do the same for zwift launcher app to try to limit the impact of potential new bugs?
I don’t see much harm in it. They did a soft launch of the new launcher weeks ago anyway, without announcing it… so they’re sort of testing the launcher the same way as game releases.
Any word on the Apple TV bug where joining a robopacer takes multiple tries?
Not only an Apple thing. On Android it takes me almost every time (Since 1.39) 3 tries before I can join. On a rare occasion it goes right the first time.
Last time they promessed they had fixed it with 1.40, but what a joke it was as I still had the same issues and Zwift staff of course did not believe it (just like the innitial report of the bug in 1.39).
Really looking forward to ‘teleport’ between Robo Pacers.. Any guesses as to when?
I’d guess in the next 2 months. Possibly closer to 1 month.
Love the coffee break. EVERY single time it attaches me to someone that can’t hold the pace of the group and I end up getting dropped in 5 seconds canceling the coffee break and sprinting to catch the group. Of course the coffee break timer reset at that point.
The only time I’ve used one so far it seemed for me to go in sort of surges — so it’s possible 5 seconds isn’t long enough. Try it sometime when you don’t care if it works or not.
Another possibility of course is that there is some anti-coffee-break tactics going on — particularly when there are (other) people that ‘can’t hold the pace of the group’.
If you follow this link you can download the latest launcher from Zwift to force the upgrade. And then try to download the windows one, it wont download, I get a message “virus detected”.
That’s why I’m happy to let new versions roll out to me when they are ready, I’m not in any hurry to be the first one to find new bugs.
Feature Request: More granular control of HoloReplay Privacy (such that one can share replays and compete asynchronously with friends, but not with crawlers/scrapers/script kiddies)
I have been unable to change my custom workouts. For example change 2 min to 3 min. I put the curser there n click it but it jumps to screen above…
Working fine for me over here on PC.
Any indication if they will add support for Chromebooks and tablets? Seems a bit stupid to not support one of the fastest growing segments. I had to cancel my subscription cause they don’t support it
It already supports tablets, as long as they meet the minimum spec.
Chromebooks aren’t made for gaming, so I don’t think Zwift will ever target those. They don’t have the graphics power to render 3D environments nicely.
Zwift runs on intel cpu integrated graphics, it has a pretty low requirement for gpus, doesn’t seem like its the underlying hardware is the sticking point.
Yesterday after the update (PC) – I did an hour group ride, saved my coffee break until the last 20 minutes, when I used it all I got was the 30 second break, which I had not taken earlier.. After that expired, the next one was again, 30 minutes away – with 20 minutes left in the ride.. Bug or one off I wonder. I’ll try again today.
It just happened again. Didn’t take any Coffee Break until 35 minutes into a 60 minute group ride and all I got was the initial 30 second option! Booo !!!
after a ride, hovering over the power curve no longer shows the watt-at-that-time anymore. (not sure if someone mentioned this already, I didn’t read them all)
Yeah – it’s in the bug list above. Holdover from version 1.39 and it drives me crazy!
something that appeared on last updates was your camera just at random – went to sky view, and you cant get out of it. there’s no rhyme or reason to when it happens and its extremely annoying – anyone else get this recently???
I’d just be happy if i could have an option to go back to version 1.38. That was the last time i could go to Makuri Islands and the graphics weren’t corrupted on my Laptop. Now i can go in if if i drop the resolution to 720p but then it crashes after a few miles. The help desk don’t even answer my messages anymore. And yesterday after my ride it updated Strava but not Garmin Connect.
Apple watch app has disappeared off my Gen 6 watch with this update. It’s no longer listed in the apps I can install in Watch app on my phone. IOS 15.6.1. Means I can’t use the heartrate monitor.
Also, on the laptop on which I run the game itself, I’m getting all sorts of graphical glitches, with large and small black boxes/textures appearing on the screen where there should be fireworks/particles and even where the back light on some bikes should be. Pretty awful to look at. Windows 10 fully patched, Intel graphics on a 3 year old Dell XPS 13.
I found a bug in the current version last night (I haven’t loaded this update yet). I was riding with a friend in France, cruising around the spaghetti rd’s when my friend turned on Coffee Stop, so, I did as well so that we were both riding in coffee stop mode.. Well, what happened next was incredible to say the least.. we got faster and faster on screen until pretty soon we were doing 144kph! woop.. got the 100kph badge to go with it and my fastest speed on a bike ever! Then all of a sudden, we hit an invisible wall, stopped dead and were no longer riding in coffee stop mode. Quite the experience. I’m glad I got something out of it.
Thought worth mentioning.
Oh, and another Bug, when riding, and only sometimes, the rider list on the right hand side doesn’t show me in the list, or shows me right up the top. Not terribly helpful as can’t see what riders are holding ahead, so that I stay with them.
Fascinating! It sounds like Zwift has really gone above and beyond here and are including relativistic time-dilation effects in this upgrade. Chapeau!
Additionally, from your description, we can infer that Coffee Stop mode must be using ‘world’ time and not user time. So as you get closer and closer to the speed of light on your bike, even though the coffee stop for you seems to be lasting less long, for everyone around you (assuming they aren’t also travelling at warp speed) time is felt to be longer.
So your coffee stop ends, from your, perspective, earlier than you would expect. The good news is you’ve found a way to slow down your Zwift aging!
This may also explain packs of riders going in circles! Micro-singularities!
Someone I follow on Strava exceeded 400kph in coffee stop mode!!
Meaningful elevation profile maps/customisable HUD?
Steering support for the Wattbike Atom – a bike supposedly Zwift supported but has never worked.
Since the previous update I have an issue of incorrect speed calculation on zwift when running bike workouts.
e.g. 240W cadence 90 => Speed 26-27 kmh
This started approx a week ago after the previous update.
I cant see that it has been fixed in this version, or?
When would be the option of privacy than NO ONE can see if you logging,or riding or how many kms you are doing or watts.
it’s frustrating that you put private but there is still people getting the message that I logging and they can watch what I am doing.
nonsense!!! Private is private
Any other users reporting that Zwift won’t launch following the update?
Hi James, that happened to me too. I have uninstalled Zwift and installed the latest version from the website, but Zwift refuses to launch. I am using Windows Version 10 Home. Very frustrating! Does anyone have a solution?
This has just happened to me as well. Have tried restarting, reinstalling, running as administrator… Launcher just instaquits.
Same issue for me, very annoying!
Yep, I can no longer get onto Zwift. I’ve restarted my computer, uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times without success. No idea how to fix
Hi there,
With these latest updates, I can’t seem to be able to find the “Trainer Difficulty” bar…
Is it me or they removed it?
Thanks for your help in advance!
After the update, my Save Screen just spins and spins. It eventually saves the ride to my profile, but the screen is still spinning. I have to go into task manager and kill the app. and restart.
Mine was doing that, and I found that if you click the save button again, it goes away.
hmm. I hit mine over and over again and it just keeps spinning. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling and see if that fixes it.
I have tried everything i can think of. Reinstalled everything, but i am still left having to CTRL ALT DELETE and end the task to end any of my rides. Never had a problem in the 3 years i have been on ZWIFT until this last update.
Anything on M1 shadows?
Question: Does Zwift factor in bike weight into it’s algorithm or just rider weight? Curious so I can relate to IRL where Ws on my power meter include weight, bike & accessories up the climbs. Let me know. Thanks P.eter (72)
What is included in W/kg? Just rider weight? Anything else?
W/kg displayed on screen just uses your body weight. But Zwift uses combined weight (bike + body weight) to compute your in game speed. That’s why lightweight climbing bikes climb faster.
In a race yesterday and the only riders that showed up on the leaderboard were those in my category, but our group was amidst riders that were obviously from other categories. I don’t think I’ve seen the leaderboard behave that way before, but maybe there was something about this particular type of race – Herd Summer Racing League?
When riding today I noticed a road segment through from where repack starts to the road between the tempus fugit town and sequoia circle.
@Eric Schlange – just a note on Coffee Breaks which you might have known but I nearly got caught out by…need to use before 5km to go in an event. That’s fine. HOWEVER, it will cancel the draft when the distance hits 5km. I thought you just had to use it by that point. Was going up the Alpe in a group ride, hit coffee break at about 5.1km to go and it stopped me at 5km. Glad I didn’t go too far and could catch up! So, activate before 3 minutes before 5km!
Same with timed rides. Used mine with 15m45s to go and thought I would still get the full 3 minuts. But it stopped exactly at 15m left in the ride and I got dropped …..
Using apple TV, last week still had numerous issues with joining a robopacer. Today tried 5 times with no luck, decided to ride France RGV route with grass and lamp posts in sections of the road with also riding into fenceposts and stone walls. Starting to get somewhat frustrated with the state of Zwift at this point.
Same problem for me today on iOS. Interesting enough it showed me the coffee break option even though there was no pacer around.
Tried 4 times with two different pacers, then gave up. A minute later I realized the desired pacer was 45sec behind me and waited. From there everything worked as usual.
Coffee Stop isn’t tied to pacerbots in any way. It’s available in free rides, etc.
Seems like the zone for staying with a bot got smaller… 8m(ish) front and back instead of the previous double digit gap. Did I notice it correctly or was Miguel just being temperamental this AM?
The zone changes size depending on the size of the group. So perhaps your group was smaller than usual? (Bigger zone when the group is bigger.)
If you want to do a Holoreplay at a specific pace, you need to know what how Z is calculating your “current speed”. 10 second average is what I can determine from the Z forum. Is this correct?
Hi, now that the weather is getting better, I am riding more outdoors than on Zwift. Paying 15 € each month and not using the platform is quite a bit and I am thinking about cancelling the subscription. An alternative would be an annual subscription with less to pay each month, a possibility I read about on social networks. I guess this option is not yet available, is it? I would appreciate a feedback on this before taking a decision. Thanks in advance
The black boxes in dusty condition issue isn’t fixed. It happened to me today. I just pretended I was a bad dude in Harry Potter. Is anyone else still experiencing this?
Yes, all over Watopia earlier today. It was a first for me though, haven’t been zwifting that much recently. PC user.
I hope they fix the the riders nearby list soon. I find it a lot harder in races to manage my effort within a big group. Also I’m finding I’m more often than not placed miles away from the RoboPacer.
Still no word on the kickr bike buttons? No PU or UTurn!!
What is taking soo long for 5he video clip to be enabled for Android users? You have had this option available for Apple users for 4 months now. 🤔 Sure you play favorites, but we pay the same monthly fee and we have been extremely patient.
Is this addressed to me? Because I have no control over Zwift’s code… I just run a website about Zwift.